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39% -- share of ai companies hiring forward deployed roles for top AI companies (GTM hiring tracker) (2026)
Among top AI companies actively hiring tracked for GTM hiring, 39% have open Forward Deployed roles.
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39%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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200
Evidence Quality
B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Adam GTM (adamgtm.com)
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Tier B
https://adamgtm.com/p/forward-deployed-everything ↗
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Forward Deployed Everything
Last week I shared some examples and stats about companies expanding their FDE programs. “Forward Deployed” was hot last year and is now a central part of AI GTM.
AI is easy to try. Making it "work" in an Enterprise is a different problem.
Forward Deployed teams help fill that gap.
In January, Inter…
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Adam GTM (adamgtm.com)
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Methodology
Author's ongoing tracking of 200+ top AI companies' GTM job postings; among those actively hiring, 39% had open 'Forward Deployed' roles. GTM hiring benchmark for AI companies.
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top AI companies (GTM hiring tracker): 39% share of ai companies hiring forward deployed roles. Source: Adam GTM (adamgtm.com) (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-companies-fde-role-adoption-2026
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